From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 22 17:23:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net [209.3.218.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84FF37B71D for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from babkin@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client-151-198-135-105.nnj.dialup.bellatlantic.net [151.198.135.105]) by smtp02.teb1.iconnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA04305; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:23:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABAA57B.1E3BAF05@bellatlantic.net> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:23:07 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-19990626-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: scanner@jurai.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel driver doc's Take 2. References: <200103221807.f2MI7K421522@prism.flugsvamp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > In article you write: > > She need's specific information that we need that we cant get > >unless we sign NDA's for the doc's so she can try and get them merged into > >a reference product somewhere between the datasheet (worthless) and the > >programming manual (NDA). > > Well, I applaud your effort, but I can't really think of how this > would work. The information in the programming manual is required > to program the chip. It is already a fairly concise manual, and if > you axe anything out of it, it would mean that feature wouldn't be > supported. How about meeting half-way in a different way ? Suppose they provide the manual with NDA but in the NDA agreement they state that the source code of the driver developed using this manual may be published. To reiterate, the manual itself would still be their trade secret but the results of development done based on this manual would be free. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message